Cordeaux Heights, NSW 2526
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales
Good to Know
Cordeaux Heights, NSW 2526 is a high-value house market in the Wollongong City Council area, currently positioned as a long-hold capital growth submarket. Located south of Sydney CBD in the Illawarra, it is home to roughly 4,460 adults across 1,557 dwellings and currently records a vacancy rate of 0.76%.
According to HtAG Analytics, Cordeaux Heights is exhibiting tight supply and strong buyer demand. Stock on Market sits at 0.15% and Inventory at 1.46 months — well below the ~3-month balanced-market threshold — driving +7.8% YoY price growth and +1.0% YoY rent growth.
What the market data is signalling
Price appreciation is outpacing rent growth in Cordeaux Heights: houses show +7.8% annual price growth versus +1.0% rent growth, while indicative gross yield sits at 2.93% (below the common 3% income threshold). Tight supply readings — Stock on Market 0.15%, Inventory 1.46 months, and a 0.76% vacancy rate — point to sustained capital-driven momentum but lower near-term cashflow for buy-and-hold yield-focused investors. See the Markets in the Moment (MiM™) heatmap for a sector view of where Cordeaux Heights sits today.
Who lives in Cordeaux Heights — and why it matters for investors
Cordeaux Heights scores an IRSAD decile of 10, indicating a highly advantaged socio-economic profile; owner-occupier prevalence is strong — the renter/owner ratio is 8% — and the units/houses mix is just 1%. High IRSAD and low renter share usually mean lower rental churn and lower volatility in capital values, but they also limit rental demand depth and keep yields compressed. Read more in our IRSAD Crossover study.
Why suburb-level data matters for Cordeaux Heights
Council-level averages can hide pockets like Cordeaux Heights where market dynamics are atypically tight. Use the suburb’s own metrics — typical house price $1,471,040, indicative gross yield 2.93%, Stock on Market 0.15%, Inventory 1.46 months, and 35 days on market — to judge risk and timing. For methodology on why this matters, see our LGA vs Suburb research. For deeper numbers, download the full Cordeaux Heights data guide.
What's behind the RCS™ score of 68
HtAG’s RCS™ bundles three independent dimensions — risk minimisation, capital-growth potential and cashflow resilience — into a single composite to help match markets to strategy. A score of 68 reflects strong capital-growth signals offset by compressed rental yields and affordability pressure. Learn more about how the RCS™ is built. To explore the full sub-score breakdown and scenario modelling, open Cordeaux Heights in HtAG Copilot.
Forward signals to watch
vacancy rate — currently 0.76%: sustained sub-1% vacancy over 12–24 months typically maintains upward pressure on prices and rents and signals strong landlord bargaining power.
building approvals ratio — currently 0.07%: very low approvals suggest little new supply is entering the market, supporting scarcity-driven price growth but limiting future rental stock increases.
Sydney cycle phase: a city-wide shift toward slower capital growth or tightening credit conditions would moderate local momentum in Cordeaux Heights; conversely, renewed metropolitan strength would likely amplify the suburb’s capital-growth bias.
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RCS Breakdown
Cordeaux Heights's RCS™ headline is an overall signal — but it doesn't tell you why. The three sub-scores below reveal whether that score is earned through risk minimisation, capital growth, or cashflow — and which portfolio brief it fits.
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Market Trends
Cordeaux Heights's headline values — $1,503K to buy and $739PW to rent, a 2.55% gross yield. Over the past decade, prices have moved 90.47% and rents 61.49% — the Yield series shows whether that gap is widening (price outpacing rent, yield compressing) or closing.
$1,503K is today. The 10-year trajectory reveals whether that's the top of a run, the start of a new leg, or somewhere mid-cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
$739PW today, with rent growth at (+3.94% YoY) compared to price growth (+9.19%). That spread determines yield is expanding or compressing across the next cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
Where is Cordeaux Heights in its cycle - and is the 2.55% yield holding?
Cycle phase tells you whether you're buying near the bottom (room to run) or top (compression ahead). Yield trajectory tells you whether cashflow is durable or being eroded — the single most important question for a long-hold thesis.
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Area Risks
Property data alone won't flag the structural risks that can erode a long-hold position. Bushfire overlays, flood-zone exposure, and economic concentration sit outside the price feed but determine whether your capital is insurable, defensible, and structurally protected. Unlock to see.
Are there hidden structural risks shaping Cordeaux Heights's long-hold story?
Beyond the headline price, Cordeaux Heights carries risk signals a median can't show — hazard exposure from bushfire and flood overlays, and how narrowly local employment leans on a handful of sectors (the concentration the EDI score quantifies). Together these separate insurable, defensible long-holds from those carrying tail-risk that never surfaces in the headline number.
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Supply & Demand
Cordeaux Heights's headline numbers show where the market is today. The two cards below answer where it's heading. Direction is what separates a buy from a wait.
Is housing supply tightening or building up?
Stock on Market is one number — the trend is what matters. SoM, inventory, building approvals and hold period together reveal whether the market is starving for stock (price pressure up) or quietly building a pipeline (pressure down).
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Is buyer and renter demand heating up or cooling off?
Vacancy is one signal — the real question is whether demand is still building or quietly peaking. Days on market, vacancy, search index and clearance rate are the four pulse-points — when they diverge, they signal a turning point.
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Fundamentals
Cordeaux Heights can look solid on the surface — but the three layers below separate markets that genuinely hold value from ones that only look like they do.
Is Cordeaux Heights genuinely stable - or just expensive?
IRSAD hints at affluence, but socio-economic strength alone doesn't guarantee resilience. Combined with the renter-to-owner balance and unit-to-house ratio, you get the three signals that separate a tightly-held submarket from one carrying hidden volatility.
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Where do Cordeaux Heights prices go over the next 12 months?
Today's headline price is just a snapshot. Projected ROI and the volatility index tell you whether to commit capital now, wait for a softer entry, or rotate into a steadie submarket.
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Can you actually buy into Cordeaux Heights - and exit cleanly?
Tightly-held areas reward long-hold investors but punish anyone who needs liquidity. Annual sales and rental volume reveal whether your capital can reposition — or sits structurally locked in.
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Education & Infrastructure
Cordeaux Heights looks tightly-held and stable on the surface — but the three layers below separate areas that genuinely hold value from ones that only look like they do.
Does Cordeaux Heights's school catchment + infrastructure pipeline justify the price?
School ranks anchor family demand and tenant quality. The active infrastructure pipeline shifts a suburb's price ceiling over the next 5–10 years. Together they tell you whether Cordeaux Heights has structural support for the next leg of capital growth.
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Full HtAG Intelligence
Cordeaux Heights shows potential. The platform tells you whether it's the best fit for your portfolio.
Price and yield are only the surface. HtAG reads the forces underneath — supply tightening or loosening, demand heating or cooling, and the risks that move slowly but decide long-term growth. Together they show whether Cordeaux Heights has the structural support for its next leg — or whether the numbers are running ahead of the fundamentals.
The total adult population (15 years or older) of Cordeaux Heights 2526 NSW is 3,693, with a median age of 41. Of those, 61.68% are married, 5.96% are divorced or separated, 29.46% are single and 2.95% are widowed.
The average household size is 3.1 people per dwelling, and the median household monthly income is estimated to be $10,924. The median monthly mortgage repayment for households in this suburb is $2,167 which is 19.84% of their earnings.
Source: ABS Census Data (2021)